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Egor Kraev, Timo Flesch, Hudson Taylor Lekunze, Mark Harley, Pere Planell Morell

The authors introduce scores for selecting and tuning causal estimators when individual treatment effects are unobservable. They evaluate models using held-out patterns implied by the experiment or causal setup, rather than comparing predictions with unknown individual effects. In synthetic randomized-treatment CATE experiments, all three scores guide selection toward lower true effect-estimation error; performance is weaker with observed confounders.

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